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A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin

Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919 [Compiler]; National Gallery (Great Britain) [Contributor]; Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 [Contributor]· 2 chapters· 327,928 words

A picture which is worth buying is also worth seeing. Every noble picture is a manuscript book, of which only one copy exists, or ever can exist. A National Gallery is a great library, of which the books must be read upon their shelves (RUSKIN: _Arrows of the Chace_, i. 71).

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2. Volume II., with the British Schools (National Gallery and Tate

Gallery). By this division the convenience of the books for purposes of reference or use in the Galleries will not be disturbed by future changes in the allocation of British pi...

1. VOLUME I.--FOREIGN SCHOOLS

A picture which is worth buying is also worth seeing. Every noble picture is a manuscript book, of which only one copy exists, or ever can exist. A National Gallery is a great l...